How do you remove seat brackets?

[sjpitts]

I am trying to put siliverado seats in my FJ55, just like nat did in this thread

https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=80583

But I am not sure how to remove the original brackets? Are they welded on to the floor?

Jared

 

[Gumby]

The driver's side one I cut out even with the floor.

On the passenger side I got smarter and cut it about halfway up and cut a 2x4 rec tube to fit inside the channel. Much stronger.

They are flanged and welded to the floorpan.

If you wanted superclean you could drill out the spot welds with a spot weld cutter.

 

[MiniPigg]

The last time I removed front seat mounts for the factory bench... was back around 1998... I used a drill bit made to drill out spot welds and then used a chisel to seperate them off the pan. Worked rather well.

 

[nat]

I used my 4" angle grinder with one of those thin cutting disks. Here are my before and after pics.

 

[nat]

Watch out for the structural pieces that run underneath the pig's floor, I was very close to mine. I plan on moving the driver's side seat back a little more to clear better.

I used the raised round area as my level reference surface that I rested my straight edge on. I used those values to decide what size spacers to use. Passenger it was 3/4" and drivers it was 1.5" That takes care of 3 of the mounting points, I used Hardened washers to spacer out the 4th point.

Note: I think the driver's side spacer is a little high, maybe 1.25" is better, but I will decide that when I do the painting and interior work in a couple months.

These pics show the high point on the floor I chose and the spacers I used.

 

[nat]

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